Creating Digital Sourcebooks: 8VA

Dear Grade 8s,

Some of you asked about creating online sourcebooks or working on your computer. You may work digitally but then you need to upload your sourcebook onto the Google cloud so that your teacher can access it from her computer.


Indian Drive by Shena Macdonald

Google Drive is a wonderful place to store and generate online content.

Link to PPT tutorial on signing in to Google Drive





You can add your work to the cloud by uploading existing content from your computer onto Google Drive.

Link to Tutorial on Uploading Presentations

Remember that the file size needs to be small so that content loads faster online. One way to reduce file size is to compress images or break a large powerpoint into smaller sections.

 Link to Tutorial on compressing images on Powerpoint 

You can also generate content online by creating new documents in Google Drive.

Link to Tutorial on creating Google Presentations

 Link to Tutorial on adding content to Google Presentations

The next step is sharing Google Drive content with your teacher.

Link to Tutorial on sharing settings on Google Presentations

8VA: Jewellery Sourcebook

Dear Grade 8s,

 You are about to create your first Art Sourcebook.  This is a journal of ideas and 'recipes'on  how to make various art objects.

Link to a perfect sourcebook example

Your Sourcebook pages may not be smaller than A5 and it cannot be bigger than A4.

Page 1: Title page with your name, surname and register class

Page 2: Inspiration page with drawings from class PPT (we will keep adding to this as we go)

Page 3: Paper Beads Tutorial

Page 4: Wire Work Tutorial

Mrs Sturgess's classes pages 1, 3 & 4 are due in your lesson next week (18-22 Aug).

8G please note that you missed a lesson on wirework due to the big walk so you only have to hand in page 1 & 3 next week.

Here is a link to an example of someone's recipe for creating paper beads: http://www.papervinenz.com/2012/07/paper-bead-tutorial-summer-fun.html

Your sourcebook page may not be as in depth as the above example but each Technical page should include:

• Diagrams/ photos of the process/  and /or drawings of or samples of the materials used
• samples of the final product (please don't glue these in, rather place them in a pocket on your page or stitch them onto your paper.)
• Instructions on how to complete the technique

Materials Used so far: 

• Paper beads: glue pot, straws, magazine pages, woodglue, sponges, plastic sheets to protect tables
• Wire work: Pliers, wire Link to Names of the pliers

Link to previous post on Paper beads

Link to Post on Wirework

DIGITAL SOURCEBOOKS for those of you WITH A GMAIL (GOOGLE) ACCOUNT

To create a digital sourcebook work on Google Drive- I will keep posting more on this:
Link to Post on working on Google Drive

Learning to Consolidate Information when working online

Image from: http://www.taiji-to.org/archivio-eventi-blog/altri-blog-in-evidenza/david-gaffney/



Link to epipheo on what the internet is doing to our brains

Published on 6 May 2013

Most of us are on the Internet on a daily basis and whether we like it or not, the Internet is affecting us. It changes how we think, how we work, and it even changes our brains.

Nicholas Carr, the author of, "The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains," about how the Internet is influencing us, our creativity, our thought processes, our ideas, and how we think.

Reference: Carr, N. and Epipheo Studios, (2013). What the internet is doing to our brains. [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKaWJ72x1rI [Accessed 14 Jul. 2014].

Working online

http://legacy.bowlinggreen.kctcs.edu/LRC/Documents/Student%20Learning%20Outcomes%20SoftChalk/BGTCLibraryUnit8/BGTCLibraryUnit8_print.html

remember that you can't save your work on the netbooks, rather work on google docs... see link below

google drive link

link to previous posts about prezi and online learning

Creating a Google Blog

link to powerpoint on creating a blog

Animation

Use Windows live movie maker to animate and upload your work online.....



http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-movie-maker-get-started

make sure you check your pictures resolution (72dpi for web).

Grade 9- online learning

You can create mindmaps online using prezi

click here for help with prezi





click here to see examples of prezis from term 1 and 2

click here to join prezi

join the blog!

All visual art and design students must increase their learning experience in room 2-41 at dghs by becoming a member of Mrs Moore's (studio238dghs.blogspot.com) and Ms Macdonald's'(studio2-41.blogspot.com) blogs. this will allow you to access the prezi and slideboom links :-)

Grade 11s

Your sourcebooks must be online -> this means that you can scan them and create a prezi or upload them through slideboom, or you could work with animation i.e Windows Movie Maker or Photostory or Windows Live Moviemaker (this works best for online work as it ensures that your files are not to big)

http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-movie-maker-get-started?T1=t3

check that your posters/presentations fulfill the follwing requirements:



p.s see Mrs Moore's blog for some examples
http://studio238dghs.blogspot.com/2012/01/woolworths-brief.html

Photostory is a great way to create animations and it's free!

http://microsoft-photo-story.en.softonic.com/download